166 SEA DYAKS. HEAD-HUNTING. 



as memorials of triumph, has degenerated, from its 

 originally sufficiently barbarous intention, into a passion 

 for the possession of these horrid trophies, no matter 

 how obtained. Amongst the land Dyaks the custom 

 still remains as it was probably at first instituted, 

 and no wish for the possession of a head would tempt 

 these people to take one unless it were that of their 

 enemy with whom they were avowedly at war. These 

 land Dyaks differ more decidedly in other particulars 

 from those who frequent the sea, all of which shall be 

 related in the chapter upon their customs and manners. 

 The sea Dyaks, or such as are in the constant habit 

 of frequenting the ocean for the purposes of carrying 

 off the heads of fishermen, or any other persons whom 

 they may find in a situation not capable of defence, 

 inhabit principally the countries lying in the interior 

 of the great rivers Sarebas and Sakarran, with their 

 numerous and large branches. Settlements of them, 

 which, however, appear to differ in some measure, are 

 also found on the Kenawit and the neighbouring 

 branches of the river Rejang, and one tribe also be- 

 longing to this division has its chief settlement at 

 Lundup, pronounced Lundoo in the Sarawak territory. 

 As it is from this tribe that the following remarks are 

 principally drawn, except where it is expressly stated to 

 the contrary, I think it right to give the reader a just 

 idea of its geographical position. This tribe, the name 

 of which is Sebooyoh, misprinted Sibnowan in Captain 

 Keppel's book, came originally from the country 



